[77989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Allen Stratton)
Tue Feb 15 18:15:16 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:13:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Allen Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Cc: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <040f01c513b3$3dbc46f0$710016ac@ssprunk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Thus spake Bruce Campbell" <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
> > Introducing new devices that are intended to trust that big, bad, easily
> > spoofable internet using non-secured protocols such as tftp in order to
> > get their configuration from a non-local server shows a degree of trust
> > not seen since the Famous Five, the BabySitters Club and pre '96 O'Reilly
> > books on writing internet protocols.
>
> Unfortunately, TFTP is the only protocol that many phone vendors
> implement -- and VoIP operators aren't happy about it. Some vendors have
> started implementing HTTP(S), but it's far from common at this point.
Odd, we have over 100 different user agents on our network today and I
would say that most of the devices we are working with today support
someting other then tftp.
-Nathan
